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Marx stated that the purpose of this essay was to "demonstrate how the class struggle in France created circumstances and relationships that made it possible for a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero's part." In doing so he applies the method of Historical Materialism and... Read Full Overview

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (German: Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon) is an essay written by Karl Marx between December 1851 and March 1852, and originally published in 1852 in Die Revolution, a German monthly magazine. The essay discusses the French coup of... Read Full Overview

The book shows Marx in his form as a social and political historian, treating actual historical events-those leading up to Louis Bonaparte's coup d'?tat of 2 December 1851-from the viewpoint of his materialist conception of history. Together with Marx's contemporary writings... Read Full Overview

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (German: Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon) was an essay written by Karl Marx between December 1851 and March 1852, and originally published in 1852 in Die Revolution, a German monthly magazine published in New York City and established... Read Full Overview

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (German: Der 18te Brumaire des Louis Napoleon) was an essay written by Karl Marx between December 1851 and March 1852, and originally published in 1852 in Die Revolution, a German monthly magazine published in New York City and established... Read Full Overview

El trabajo de Marx "El dieciocho Brumario de Luis Bonaparte" escrito bas?ndose en el an?lisis concreto de los sucesos revolucionarios de Francia entre 1848 y 1851, es una de las obras m?s importantes del marxismo. Es de excepcional importancia la conclusi?n que hace Marx en el... Read Full Overview

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon was written between December 1851 and March 1852, and originally published in 1852 in Die Revolution, a German-language monthly magazine. The pamphlet shows Marx in his form as a social and political historian, treating actual historical... Read Full Overview

"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains... Read Full Overview